Californian beats Bejeweled 2

A dedicated individual has beaten Bejeweled 2, an addictive casual game that, until now, has never been recorded as game that could be beaten. But, after three years of playing a single round of the web-based game, a California steel contractor named Mike Leyde has performed the impossible.

Leyde’s round of Bejeweled 2 lasted 2,205 hours and 51 minutes. In that time, he collected 4,872, 229 gems, earning the game’s highest calculable score of 2,147,483,647. At that point, the score box flipped and went blank, making Leyde the first person to ever beat Bejeweled 2, according to PopCap.

Developed and published by PopCap Games, Bejeweled 2 is a free-to-play online game. A full version is also available for download.